Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days

In December 1926 the celebrated crime writer Agatha Christie disappeared from her home in Berkshire, leaving her car abandoned off a Surrey road. The story was front-page news. She was identified in a Harrogate hotel eleven days later, claiming to be the victim of amnesia caused by a driving accident. Up till now none of her biographers has come up with definitive evidence as to how Agatha Christie spent the days after she went missing or whether her memory loss was genuine. Claims by previous biographers that the writer never gave her own explanation of the incident during her lifetime are in error; in his new book, Jared Cade reproduces Agatha's own written account which gives the reader insight into why she was forced to collude in the family cover-up. He has unearthed startling new evidence, including accounts by Agatha's relatives, that reveal for the first time why she staged the disappearance with the help of a friend and how it all went terribly wrong. Meticulously researched and illustrated with many photographs never before seen, this biography provides the definitive key to the author's life and works.

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Cade, Jared

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Peter Owen Ltd

The original 1998 edition. In December 1926, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. Eleven days later the crime writer was found in a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, reading newspaper accounts of the search for herself and claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Up till now none of her biographers has come up with conclusive evidence as to what Agatha Christie did in the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine. Although the notoriety made Agatha Christie famous, she never recovered from the intentse press scrutiny, and the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured that she made no reference to it in her memoirs. Illustrated with 31 photographs, many of them from private albums, Jared Cade's rivetting book - on which a BBC television documentary has been based - provides all the answers, including startling accounts by the novelist's surviving relatives, that reveal for the first time why she staged the disappearance with the help of a co-conspirator and how it all went terribly wrong... 'This is the only biography that tells Agatha's life story as it really was. Jared Cade's insight into her personality is unsurpassed.' Judith and Graham Gardner, relatives of Agatha Christie

Peter Owen Publishers

NOW UNDER OPTION TO A HOLLYWOOD FILM COMPANYIn December 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. The discovery of the crime writer's abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found over two hundred miles away in a northern spa town, claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Up till the publication of this book in 1998 none of her biographers had come up with conclusive evidence as to what she did during the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine. Although the newspaper headlines made Agatha Christie famous, the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured she made no reference to it in her memoirs. Jared's Cade's number one bestselling biography - on which a BBC television documentary has been based - provides the answers to the mystery, including Agatha Christie's long forgotten explanation of the notorious episode, along with startling accounts by her relatives that reveal for the first time why she staged the disappearance with the help of a co-conspirator and how it all went terribly wrong. His sympathetic investigation reveals the incidents that shaped her character and how the fall-out from the disappearance affected the rest of her life. Illustrated with 48 photographs, many of them from private albums, this fully expanded 2011 edition draws on a newly discovered cache of family papers, diaries and letters, to which Jared Cade was given exclusive access, and reveals even more fascinating secrets about her life and works. Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days: The Revised and Expanded 2011 Edition is a must for all Christie devotees. 'Jared Cade is an authority on Christiana, and Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days has received much acclaim for its impressively detailed examination of the Queen of Crime's disappearance.' - Crime Time

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